# search.py
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"""
In search.py, you will implement generic search algorithms which are called by
Pacman agents (in searchAgents.py).
"""
import util
class SearchProblem:
"""
This class outlines the structure of a search problem, but doesn't implement
any of the methods (in object-oriented terminology: an abstract class).
You do not need to change anything in this class, ever.
"""
def getStartState(self):
"""
Returns the start state for the search problem.
"""
util.raiseNotDefined()
def isGoalState(self, state):
"""
state: Search state
Returns True if and only if the state is a valid goal state.
"""
util.raiseNotDefined()
def getSuccessors(self, state):
"""
state: Search state
For a given state, this should return a list of triples, (successor,
action, stepCost), where 'successor' is a successor to the current
state, 'action' is the action required to get there, and 'stepCost' is
the incremental cost of expanding to that successor.
"""
util.raiseNotDefined()
def getCostOfActions(self, actions):
"""
actions: A list of actions to take
This method returns the total cost of a particular sequence of actions.
The sequence must be composed of legal moves.
"""
util.raiseNotDefined()
def tinyMazeSearch(problem):
"""
Returns a sequence of moves that solves tinyMaze. For any other maze, the
sequence of moves will be incorrect, so only use this for tinyMaze.
"""
from game import Directions
s = Directions.SOUTH
w = Directions.WEST
return [s, s, w, s, w, w, s, w]
def depthFirstSearch(problem):
"""
Search the deepest nodes in the search tree first.
Your search algorithm needs to return a list of actions that reaches the
goal. Make sure to implement a graph search algorithm.
To get started, you might want to try some of these simple commands to
understand the search problem that is being passed in:
print "Start:", problem.getStartState()
print "Is the start a goal?", problem.isGoalState(problem.getStartState())
print "Start's successors:", problem.getSuccessors(problem.getStartState())
"""
"*** YOUR CODE HERE ***"
util.raiseNotDefined()
def breadthFirstSearch(problem):
"""Search the shallowest nodes in the search tree first."""
"*** YOUR CODE HERE ***"
util.raiseNotDefined()
def uniformCostSearch(problem):
"""Search the node of least total cost first."""
"*** YOUR CODE HERE ***"
util.raiseNotDefined()
def nullHeuristic(state, problem=None):
"""
A heuristic function estimates the cost from the current state to the nearest
goal in the provided SearchProblem. This heuristic is trivial.
"""
return 0
def aStarSearch(problem, heuristic=nullHeuristic):
"""Search the node that has the lowest combined cost and heuristic first."""
"*** YOUR CODE HERE ***"
util.raiseNotDefined()
# Abbreviations
bfs = breadthFirstSearch
dfs = depthFirstSearch
astar = aStarSearch
ucs = uniformCostSearch